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Brief shot of xylophonist Teddy Brown, who commentator describes as "the biggest xylophonist on earth". We then cut to Charlie, Teddy's young rival of 14 years, playing his own composition (unnamed) on the xylophone.

I think Charlie looks like a midget, not a 14-year-old boy. Does anyone know the real story behind this act?

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22nd June 2013

Charlie the wonder boy xylophonist appeared in Archie Andre's Band at the Opera House Tunbridge Wells . He is said to have created "a good deal of enthusiasm, particularly when he milked the cow". Probably during the 1930's.

I wonder if he was paid half a crown per solo. This was what Andre paid my dad for trumpet solos in the late 1930s, Red Sails in the Sunset a regular request. Knowing Archie my dad insisted in the coin upfront!